Hello everyone, Just an enhancement request, could we please merge the USE flags "pic" and "pie" together? From what I know and understand, PIC stands for “Position Independent Code” and PIE for “Position Independent Executable”, which mean the same behaviour, based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-independent_code Maybe those two USE flags have different purposes, but they look like to act as the same, based on gcc(1) for -fPIC and -fPIE descriptions. Thanks for your support.
they do not mean the same thing. PIC is typically used to control TEXTRELs in shared libraries on arches (like x86) where the memory overhead is less important than the speed gains. PIE is used to control whether all executables are PIEs.
